china's economy. what did it grow at 7.2% recent numbers something like that? it's down a little bit. i will take those numbers. >> official numbers are. >> china growing at much faster rate than we are still with its own challenges. >> a whole lot poorer. starting from a whole lot lower base. of all the advanced country which i wouldn't count china's income is about -- >> laura: their economy is about to surpass ours. among the economists that's not debatable right now. that's getting us off to a different topic. let's focus on job growth in the united states. the new jobs numbers came out today, 146,000 jobs added. and that's okay. but it's really, again, not indicating any pathway toward the type of job growth that would need in a robust recovery. even assuming these tax cut hikes kick in if we don't go off the cliff, the new normal seems to be get used to low growth and probably job growth that continues to be anemic at best. >> yeah. it's a little better than anemic. but it's certainly not booming. it's better than the recovery in 2001. it's not near as go